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    <body><![CDATA[I really like Margaret Mahy's novels - they are about teenagers and strange things happen to them - sort of young adult contemportary fantasy. Seventeen year old Roland is a popular young man - prefect at Ault Academy, dating the prettiest girl in school, smart, good-looking and has a good relations...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25266204">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This fantasy meanders a bit at first, but finds its footing as the story goes on. I like how Mahy tends to eschew epic plots in favor of tighter family-based dramas. Overall, Alchemy was perhaps not quite as wonderful as a <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24431.Trickster_s_Choice_Daughter_of_the_Lioness_1_" title="Trickster's Choice (Daughter of the Lioness, #1) by Tamora Pierce">The Tricksters</a> and <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/351461.Changeover_A_Supernatural_Romance_Point_" title="Changeover  A Supernatural Romance (Point) by Margaret Mahy">The Changeover</a>, but it still left me thinking that I want ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67571521">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love a good book about magic. Yes, I do. I did see parallels between this novel and <em>Changeover</em>, but they were such good parallels, that I certainly won't complain.<br/><br/>The way Mahy writes teenagers is quite excellent. She really seems to have insight into the struggles they go through. <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10119684">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[YA fantasy. When charming, intelligent highschool student Roland inexplicably commits a petty crime, he finds himself blackmailed by a favourite teacher into befriending misfit Jess Ferret. But Jess has her own problems, and they're bigger and darker than Roland could have imagined.<br/><br/>I lov...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14473228">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Omg. I loveeeeedddddd this book. Its one of my favs. I could re-read it sooo many times. It should really be made into a movie.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book was ok. the idea was cool but at some parts it was unbelieveable. ok if you have nothing elese.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I checked this book out of the library solely because of this sentence in the book jacket description that cracked me up:<br/><br/>&quot;Why has a shady magician from Roland's past suddenly come back into his life?&quot;<br/><br/>Turned out to be a pretty good book, as far as YA goes, one of those &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13578213">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pretty good.  A little hard to get into, but it got pretty exciting at the end.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ Roland’s teacher blackmails him into spying on his classmate, the solitary and faintly mysterious Jessica Ferret.  Roland and Jess strike up an unlikely alliance that gradually shifts as Roland grows ever more dissatisfied with his pretence at a normal life.  As their friendship deepens, rival ma...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8024086">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I picked up this book, I knew I had read it before, but I couldn't remember a single thing about it, as opposed to The Changeover, also by Mahy, about which I can remember much of the plot, but never the name of the book (although I suppose I've fixed that now, haven't I?). That I found this bo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5489197">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this...I love the trend I'm seeing in young adult novels to show accurately the hidden nastiness and irrationality that is so much a part of being a teenager AND a person.  When I was a kid it seemed like YA novels were much more...G-rated, I guess, in terms of character motivation.  Anywa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2614068">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So I got this book by accident. A couple of people recommended The Alchemist to me, and I forgot the exact title and so reserved a copy of this book instead. And I read it and wasn't that impressed, but figured out I had the wrong book. This book is a magic teenage genre that's fun, but not deservin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26807705">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The best fantasy (and fantastic realism) starts with people and situations that are completely normal and straightforward (for the time/place) and slowly draw you in to the story. Then when things get wild, you are grounded in the character's world views.  I rate Margaret Mahy very highly.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can't remember exactly <em>why</em> I dropped this book, apart from the fact that I found it incredibly contrived, the characters seemed flat, and the writing didn't draw me in at all. Not the kind of thing I'll be picking up again.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This seems rather similar to her earlier book, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=The Changeover" title="The Changeover">The Changeover</a>, an old favorite of mine.  But it was still worth reading, and I enjoyed her style.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[tak habis pun lagi.hehe]]></body>
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